Down the Mississippi

The film 'Down the Mississippi' (released in 1922) is in the public domain in the United States. Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, all works published or registered for copyright in the U.S. prior to January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain as their statutory copyright terms have expired. A search of the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) and the AFI Catalog identifies several short subjects and newsreels from the period 1918–1924 with variations of this title, most notably an International Newsreel travelogue/scenic film from 1922. Regardless of the specific production company (e.g., International Newsreel or various independent educational short producers), any film released under this title within the 1918–1922 window is decades past its maximum 95-year copyright protection period.